I Spy

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I Spy can refer to any of two South African plays.


I Spy Anthony Farmer, Adam Leslie and Ralph Trewhela

I Spy is a musical comedy by Anthony Farmer, Adam Leslie and Ralph Trewhela.

The original text

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

First presented at the Library Theatre, Johannesburg, on 13 May 1959.

Ivor van Rensburg, Donna Gay Duthie, Stanley Paul Walsh, Elizabeth Williamson, Lyn Hooker, Hazel Brown, David Hall-Green, Dennis Driscoll, Shelagh Holliday, Jon Buckley, Brian Edward Vaughan, Tamara Elizabeth Natalie Fuerst, Ralph Charles Gruskin, Roy Harry Sargeant, Michael McGovern, Ziona Garfield and Bella Mariani.

Sources

Tucker, 1997. 124.

Various entries in the NELM catalogue.

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I Spy Henry Rootenberg

I Spy is a play by Henry Rootenberg. It was the winner of the Amstel Playwright of the Year Award in 1980.

The original text

Manuscript held by NELM: [Collection: ARTSCAPE]: 2006. 38. 174.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1981: Presented by the Johannesburg Repertory Players at the Alexander Theatre, directed by Norman Coombes, May 1981.

1981: Presented by The Little Abbey Theatre, directed by Dennis Schauffer, November 1981.

1998: Presented by The Westville Theatre Club, directed by Andrea Zorab-Kaminski, April 1998.

Sources

Various entries in the NELM catalogue.

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